Ch.Y. south AMERICA. 3S3 



6 min. S. On rhe '25th in the ]::DÍtude of 45 cifg. 

 6 min. and 34 dtg. 47 min. eaftof the faipe meridian, 

 we again found tiic latiiude by obfcrvaiion to be 8 mi- 

 nutes lefs than chat by account. But afterwards they 

 agreed till we had p-lled the bank, when on the 12th 

 of Auguil, 16 degrees two m.inutes eaft of Ccnception, 

 our latitude by obfervation, was 45 degrees 58 minutes, 

 an exccfs of juH: 30 mini.;tf-s beyond that by the rec- 

 koning i and this great difference had commenced on 

 the 9th, when we Vv^eie in 45 deg. 12 riiin. latitude, 

 and 19 ót^g. I min. eafi: of Conception. 



FjioM tliis difrcrence it is manifeil that, on the vveft 

 fide of the bank, betwixt it and Cape Breton, that is 

 under the m.cridian of Placentia, the currents fet to 

 the northward, cgrecably to the opinion of the pilots 

 in thofe feas, who all declare that the fea fets into the 

 gulph of Canada by the ftreight betwixt cape Roze, 

 the mioft wefiern point of the illand of Newfoundland, 

 and the north cape in the ifle Royale; and difcharges 

 itfelf by the (freight of Belifle, formed by the main land 

 and the north point of Newfoundland : and we fenfibly 

 found on miaking the coaft, that the waters carried the 

 ihip northward. 



On the 12th of Augufl: in the morning, v/e faw a 

 great numjber of thofe kinds of fea-fowl which aiways 

 keep near the fliore, and paiticularly feveral gulls, 

 from which v\ith the courfe we had fteered from the 

 time of our comins: into foundings on the 2d of Au- 

 gull, we concluded ourielves to be not far from land, 

 having aifo diminillied our longitude exadly 1 1 de- 

 grees. In this conjedure we were foin confirmed by 

 weeds, pieces of wood ;;nd boughs floating on the wa- 

 ter, and at twelve o'clock we adually made the land, 

 though at a great diÜance. At four o'clock in the af- 

 ternoon we had a plain fight of it; but being low and 

 lev¿l we were obliged to Ihorten fail and lie to, till the 

 following day, when at half an hour after fix in the 



Vol, ÍL x\ a morning 



